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SingTel launches cloud platform
News Singapore telecoms provider's Web app platform hopes to pull in more independent software vendors, targeting offerings at small to midsize businesses.
Tags: Software, Web services, Software engineering/development, Cloud computing, SingTel, F-Secure Corp., Singapore, Small And Medium Business, payroll, software company
Proprietary vendors lose US$60B to open source
News Researchers claim that if open source products and services were calculated at commercial prices, they would exceed the combined income of Microsoft, Oracle and Computer Associates.
Tags: Open source, Linux, Open-source Software, software company, software, BEA Systems Inc., chairman, researcher, Oracle Corp., revenue
Third-party iPhone apps to arrive soon
News Software companies are bursting at the seams ahead of Monday's Steve Jobs event, as Apple finally welcomes them to the iPhone.
Tags: Mobile applications, Application, software company, 3G Network, phone, software, network, revenue, Apple iPhone, Wired Inc.
Study: Windows 7 doesn't boot faster
News Despite positive reviews of the new operating system's snappiness, PC tune-up company Iolo Technologies says its actually takes longer than Vista to get going.
Tags: Windows 7, Operating System, Microsoft Corp., software, CBS Interactive Inc., Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, CPU, Microsoft Windows 7, software company
VMware: Better-than-expected second quarter
News VMware delivered a better-than-expected second quarter and outlook for the three months ahead.
Tags: Business applications, Virtualization, CFO, non-GAAP, software company, VMware Inc., Sales, Earnings, Wall Street, license revenue
Oracle has customers over a barrel
News As CEO Larry Ellison tries to extend the company's reach into hardware, more corporate clients fret about its high prices and tough tactics.
Tags: Databases, Customer resource management (CRM), Cost control, Customer support, software company, Stock, Sun Microsystems Inc., Customer, audit, Oracle Corp.
Yahoo reportedly near decision on new CEO
News The search pioneer is close to wrapping up its search for a new chief executive according to a Wall Street Journal report, and a decision could come as early as this week.
Tags: Web sites, Search, Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp., Autodesk Inc., Yahoo! Inc., software company, CEO, News.com, Jerry Yang
NetSuite adds cloud product range for coders
News The online application company will expand its range with the addition of cloud-based developer software.
Tags: Cloud computing, NetSuite Inc., CRM, Zach Nelson, SuiteCloud, software company, ERP, Business Process, business application, Cloud computing
SAP buys into carbon management
News The enterprise software giant buys Clear Standards, a software start-up that has developed a platform for managing and reporting a company's environmental footprint.
Tags: Green IT, Business development/management, SAP AG, Leo Apotheker, Carbon Emission, Tool, software company, Clear, software, financial
Customers show SAP who's boss over support price hike
News SAP User Group Network secures deal by which SAP must meet a set of key performance indicators before it can increase support costs.
Tags: Pricing, Business applications, SAP AG, Asia, CPU, Storage, software company, KPI, Pricing, Hardware
Software AG looks to reap what it SOAs
News The German business infrastructure software maker is aiming to hit its revenue target by focusing on service oriented architecture, and both organic and inorganic growth.
Tags: Infrastructure/architecture management, Object-oriented programming, SOA, Software AG, Europe, software company, Object-oriented programming, software, Brussels, financial
Microsoft pulls out of EC browser hearing
News While the company says key officials were not going to attend the hearing, the EC claims commissioner Neelie Kroes was set to hear arguments.
Tags: Antitrust, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, software company, Microsoft Internet Explorer, software, Microsoft Windows, European Commission, Opera Software, commission
Microsoft warns of targeted Word attacks
News The software giant is investigating reports of a Word vulnerability that appears to affect Word 2002 Service Pack 3.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Security, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Attack, software company, software, Security Update, agency, Security
Gates predicts Yahoo deal unlikely
News In an interview with NBC's Tom Brokaw, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says a deal with Yahoo is unlikely, according to a CNBC report.
Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions, Internet advertising, Search, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, Yahoo! Inc., software company, CNBC
Symantec wins US$1.31M in counterfeit-software case
News The security giant has won what it claims is its largest award in a fake-software case so far in the United Kingdom.
Tags: Legal, Piracy, Spokesperson, Europe, software company, intellectual property, London, software, Symantec Corp., brand
